Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve added any updates. This has been a semester full of reading and preparing for my preliminary exams. Now that I’ve passed (yay!) and I’m officially a doctoral candidate, I’m getting ready to head to Kenya to start my 7 months of dissertation fieldwork. Before I take off, I thought I would give a shoutout to some of my favorite books from my prelim reading lists. Here is one from each of my five lists: Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture by Barry Dornfeld. Dornfeld conducts one of the few in-depth media production ethnographies out there. He rejects the critical view that media producers…